NJ toll collectors fighting to keep jobs

1:39 PM,
Dec. 28, 2013

Written by

Press of Atlantic City

Working in a metal booth in the middle of a highway - while traffic zooms by and choking exhaust fumes fill the air - may not sound like an ideal job to most people.

But the unions representing toll collectors on the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike are fighting to protect those jobs as technology cuts into the work force and plans for privatization become more intense.

Union leaders are worried that toll takers may disappear altogether unless they are able to stop the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, the parkway and turnpike's operating agency, from privatizing the fare-collection ...